Essays, on miscellaneous subjects; with An enquiry into the present state of polite learningSamuel Archer, 1818 - 270 páginas |
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... merits of their cause by single combat . It was a little hard , you may be sure , upon the poor gentleman , not only to be made a cuckold , but to be obliged to fight a duel into the bargain ; yet such was the justice of the times . The ...
... merits of their cause by single combat . It was a little hard , you may be sure , upon the poor gentleman , not only to be made a cuckold , but to be obliged to fight a duel into the bargain ; yet such was the justice of the times . The ...
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... merits : in short , I came off like a prodigy ; and such was my success , that I could ravish the laurels even from a sirloin of beef . The principal gentlemen and ladies of the town came to me , after the play was over , to compliment ...
... merits : in short , I came off like a prodigy ; and such was my success , that I could ravish the laurels even from a sirloin of beef . The principal gentlemen and ladies of the town came to me , after the play was over , to compliment ...
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... merit been properly cultivated ; but there came an unkindly frost , which nipped me in the bud , and levelled me ... merits ; every body praised me ; yet she refused at first going to see me perform ; she could not conceive , she said ...
... merit been properly cultivated ; but there came an unkindly frost , which nipped me in the bud , and levelled me ... merits ; every body praised me ; yet she refused at first going to see me perform ; she could not conceive , she said ...
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... merit of the English nation in his own person , declared , that the Dutch were a parcel of avaricious wretches ; the French a set of flattering syco- phants ; that the Germans were drunken sots , and beastly gluttons ; and the Spaniards ...
... merit of the English nation in his own person , declared , that the Dutch were a parcel of avaricious wretches ; the French a set of flattering syco- phants ; that the Germans were drunken sots , and beastly gluttons ; and the Spaniards ...
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... merit , who have little or no merit of their own to depend on ; than which , to be sure , nothing is more natural : the slender vine twists around the sturdy oak , for no other reason in the world , but because it has not strength ...
... merit , who have little or no merit of their own to depend on ; than which , to be sure , nothing is more natural : the slender vine twists around the sturdy oak , for no other reason in the world , but because it has not strength ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 132 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn away/ And lose the name of action.
Página 150 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, <*> The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's...
Página 150 - O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 139 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 131 - To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Página 103 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Página 173 - Yet, notwithstanding this weight of authority, and the universal practice of former ages, a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced under the name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses, rather than the faults of mankind, make our interest in the piece.
Página 234 - There cannot perhaps be imagined a combination more prejudicial to taste than this. It is the interest of the one to allow as little for writing, and of the other to write as much as possible.
Página 233 - His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches of cunning ; his sensibility, to the slightest invasions of contempt. Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant as to agonize under the slightest disappointment.
Página 132 - He now drops this idea, and reverts to his reasoning on death, in the course of which he owns himself deterred from suicide by the thoughts of what may follow death: the dread of something after death (That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns.) This might be a good argument in a Heathen or Pagan, and such indeed...